Canada to jointly develop new micro-processing for pulp mills

In Canada, the Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy s partnering with GreenField Specialty Alcohols to test and develop a technology that, if successful, will lead to significant economic and operational gains for pulp mills by providing new revenue streams as well as a more efficient way to perform current processes.

This is a natural extension to an earlier GreenField project supported by CRIBE, which focused on the conditioning and pre-treatment of a variety of biomass including underutilized northern hardwood such as poplar.

The practical application of this technology is to take GreenField’s patent pending equipment – a modified twin screw extruder used to extract and recover clean sugars – and apply it in a pulp and paper mill demonstration project at two mills including AV Terrace Bay Inc.  GreenField’s technology may be beneficial as the Terrace Bay mill moves towards converting the facility from conventional NMSK pulp to a dissolved pulp process.

CRIBE is providing up to $1.3 million in funding to this project to leverage a total project cost of almost $2.7 million.